Software Engineer - Mainframe
Barclays · Posted Nov 2
Banking, credit card, corporate, investment banking, and wealth management services
Pune, IndiaFull-timeOnsiteSenior Level8–15 years₹30.0L–₹50.0L yearly59 applicants
BankingFinancial ServicesInvestment BankingCredit CardsWealth ManagementPublic Company
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About the role
Barclays is a British multinational bank, and this role sits within its technology infrastructure and deployment pipelines team in Pune. The team builds and manages robust, scalable, and secure infrastructure to ensure seamless delivery of digital solutions. This Mainframe Software Engineer role involves application design and development, technical leadership, modernization and API enablement, and adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices.
What you will do
- Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
- Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
- Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
- Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
- Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
- Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.
- To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
- If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
- If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
- OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.
- Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
- Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
- Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
- Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
- Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
- Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
- Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
- Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Strong, proven experience in Mainframe Application Design, Development, and technical leadership.
- Deep expertise in core mainframe technologies, including COBOL, JCL, IMS / DB/DC, DB2, VSAM, CICS, TWS (scheduling), Stored Procedures, and REXX.
- Strong understanding of mainframe engineering, including debugging, performance optimization, and change management tooling (e.g., Endeavor, Abend-Aid, File-Aid, DB2 Platinum).
- Experience in Mainframe Modernization and API enablement, including z/OS Connect.
- Hands-on experience in adopting Generative AI and AI-assisted software engineering tools for activities such as functional & code understanding, development or testing.
- Demonstrated ability to provide technical oversight, including: Reviewing and assuring solution and design quality. Guiding complex, large-scale implementations. Unblocking delivery teams across multiple workstreams.
- Strong understanding of performance engineering and production stability considerations.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in leading or working with mainframe DevOps practices and automated delivery pipelines.
- Exposure to automation, Modernization, and next-generation engineering practices within mainframe environments.
- Strong banking / financial services domain knowledge.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Barclays
Barclays is a British multinational universal bank that provides consumer, corporate, and investment banking, as well as wealth management services. Tracing its origins back to 1690 in London, the institution operates globally to serve millions of retail and institutional clients. The bank leverages cutting-edge technology and digital platforms to drive operational efficiency across its international network.
- Industry
- Banking
- Company size
- 93000+ employees
- Founded
- 1690
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
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C.S. Venkatakrishnan
Group Chief Executive
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Anna Cross
Group Finance Director
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Alistair Currie
Group Chief Operating Officer
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